Sumeru
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Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The cosmic mountain, located at the pericarp of Nārāyaṇa's navel-lotus, upon which the Four-faced Brahmā is created.
And so that Nārāyaṇa, possessed of the Cosmic Form (virāṭ), having created upon Sumeru—which occupies the place of the pericarp of the lotus of his navel—the Self-existent called the Four-faced [Brahmā], by means of him created also the other individual embodied beings, down to the stationary [ones].
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A golden mountain, granted as a boon by the Sun, where Kesarī rules.
there his father — Kesarī by name — governs a kingdom.